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A joint session of Congress in the U.S. Capitol as President Roosevelt reads an address in 1937
February 3, 2021

State of the Union

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt reads his annual address to the members of Congress in January 1937. This photo represents the first time a color camera recorded a joint session in the Hall of Representatives.
Photograph by J. Baylor Roberts, Nat Geo Image Collection

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